iOS Password Prompts are Ripe for Abuse

Apple’s policy to repeatedly ask users for their iTunes password needlessly exposes iOS device owners to possible phishing attacks, according a mobile app developer Felix Krause. Krause’s beef with Apple is that too often and seemingly at random times, popups deliver a dialogue box for users to...

Radancy: Weak password

It takes ash123456789123456789 as a password,which is not secure.It can be cracked using Dictionary,brute force etc attacks. Impact: If password complexity is not enforced people may tend to put easily guessable password which may be exploitable for a malicious user. Solution-To make it more...

August 31, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Jack the Ripper” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! August 31, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: VMware advances applicati...

Legal Robot: Improper error message

Hi team, First of all congrats for good work to enforced the new password security policy during registration but the password error banner is not updated as per the changes. During registration it only shows the error when i enter the password if is is less than 8 chars. but if i enter the 8+...

MGASA-2017-0277 Updated jetty packages fix security vulnerability

Jetty is prone to a timing channel attack in util/security/Password.java, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by observing elapsed times before rejection of incorrect passwords CVE-2017-9735...

CVE-2017-11131

An issue was discovered in heinekingmedia StashCat through 1.7.5 for Android, through 0.0.80w for Web, and through 0.0.86 for Desktop. For authentication, the user password is hashed directly with SHA-512 without a salt or another key-derivation mechanism to enable a secure secret for...

CVE-2017-7688

Apache OpenMeetings 1.0.0 updates user password in insecure manner...

CVE-2017-7905

A Weak Cryptography for Passwords issue was discovered in General Electric GE Multilin SR 750 Feeder Protection Relay, firmware versions prior to Version 7.47; SR 760 Feeder Protection Relay, firmware versions prior to Version 7.47; SR 469 Motor Protection Relay, firmware versions prior to Versio...

Command injection

A Weak Cryptography for Passwords issue was discovered in General Electric GE Multilin SR 750 Feeder Protection Relay, firmware versions prior to Version 7.47; SR 760 Feeder Protection Relay, firmware versions prior to Version 7.47; SR 469 Motor Protection Relay, firmware versions prior to Versio...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9735

Jetty through 9.4.x is prone to a timing channel in util/security/Password.java, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by observing elapsed times before rejection of incorrect passwords...

CVE-2016-3704

Pulp before 2.8.5 uses bash's $RANDOM in an unsafe way to generate passwords...

CVE-2016-5405

389 Directory Server in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 through 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 6 through 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 through 7, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 through 7 allows remote attackers to obtain user passwords...

FTC Releases Alert on Identity Theft

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert about how quickly criminals begin using your personal information once it is posted to a hacker site by an identity thief. FTC researchers found that it can take as few as 9 minutes for crooks to access stolen personal information posted to...

Weblate: Password Restriction

Hi Weblate, Hope you all have a good day! Its a minor issue, but hope you'll fix it. It seems like after changing password for example my current password is : mypassword1 And lets assume that the hacker got an access to my account, and me of course will change my password to ex. mypassword2...

Weblate: Old password can be new password

Affected Domain: https://demo.weblate.org/ Issue: The sites like Facebook and Google keeps tracks of old password and does not allow user to set password similar to their old passwords. However in case of demo.weblate.org. It is possible for a user to set new password which is exactly similar to...

Want to bolster your security program? Keep users from making decisions.

How many times have you witnessed security problems caused by a user making bad decisions? I'd venture to guess at least a few dozen if not hundreds. We've all seen where the perfect storm forms through weaknesses in technical controls, user training, and - most often - common sense and the outco...

Hydra 8.5 - Network Logon Cracker

A very fast network logon cracker which support many different services. See feature sets and services coverage page - incl. a speed comparison against ncrack and medusa.Number one of the biggest security holes are passwords, as every password security study shows. This tool is a proof of concept...

CVE-2016-8962

CVE-2016-8962 affects IBM BigFix Inventory v9.x and IBM License Metric Tool v9.x. Root cause: the password strength policy is not enforced by default, making it easier for attackers to compromise user accounts. The IBM bulletin confirms the vulnerability in both products and provides a remediatio...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Multiple cryptographic vulnerabilities in login page on ███████

Summary: I realize that this report's title may not make sense yet. In one sentence: users logging in to the ███████ Server REST API Login page can have their passwords stolen by an attacker on the same LAN or WiFi as the victim trying to log in. Description: To save the reader any confusion, I'l...

Weblate: Null Password - Setting a new password doesn't check for empty spaces

Hi Again! As seen your website at https://demo.weblate.org/accounts/password/ Your password can't be too similar to your other personal information. Your password must contain at least 6 characters. Your password can't be a commonly used password. Your password can't be entirely numeric. I found...